Christmas goodies

Here’s some pics of the Christmas goodies mum & I cooked the other day.

Our Gingerbread Star Tree

Chocolate truffles, chocolate truffles, gingerbread, shortbread and White Christmas

and here’s just a small selection of the Christmas goodies we got.

Hope everyone had a great day and got lots of goodies :)   

This blog will be on hiatus until I start planning for Christmas 2010 or I find something cool to share. Until next year *waves*

Merry Christmas!

Hope everyone had a great day (or is having a great day)

Will upload photos 2morrow. Tired. Had a great day. Good to catch up with my bro & the family.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

On a quick side note – Holidays in Hand ended up not happening in this household this year but the plan is there for 2010.

Yesterday I spent the day doing some holiday baking. And I was good and didn’t do much taste testing LOL (having to check my blood sugar over the Christmas holidays helps)

Mum & I made……. White Christmas, Chocolate truffles, gingerbread men & stars, chocolate coffee truffles, shortbread and a gingerbread star tree. Will be decorating the gingerbread pieces later today. Photos to follow on Boxing Day as I most likely won’t b on the internet 2nite (unless I want to go on dial up)

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL

and don’t forget you can track Santa via NORAD on Google Earth ;)

See ya back here boxing day :)

Christmas tree 2009

Put our tree up yesterday.

Have decided I’m gonna change the way I’d planned to do my Holidays in Hand album LOL will hopefully have some pages to share this afternoon :D

Week 5 – Celebrate! Week

So we’re onto week 5 – Celebrate! Week.

All the Christmas presents except a few small things are bought or ordered. The presents that are here are all wrapped and labelled. The tree & decorations are out and ready to be put up on 1st December. All my Christmas cards are done – just need to post them.

This week I’ll be:

• Mail all cards by December 10.
• Begin a family Advent observance. Use an Advent wreath, calendar or daily family activity to underscore your spiritual values.
• Cultivate a calm and quiet home during the height of the season. Turn the television off, and substitute reading one evening each week.
• Complete interior and exterior decorating. As a last touch, decorate the front door as a symbol that you are ready to celebrate!

All I’ll need to do between now & and Christmas is wrap presents as they arrive, buy some Christmas food & make the foodie presents. I still can’t get over how organised I am this year.

Week 4 - Decorating Week 2009

Wow we’re in week 4 already! and I feel way more organised than last year (see the present post – I still can’t believe that)

Anyways we’re onto Decorating week. This week I’ll be

• Buying Christmas cards and getting them ready to post.
• Inspect and inventory decorations. Record results on holiday decoration inventory. Check light strands for cracked or broken bulbs. Add needed replacements to the master shopping list.  (already bought some new lights)
• Wash Christmas tree (we’ve got a swallows nest in the garage and there is bird poop on the top section of the tree – not enough is ruined to warrant buying a new tree)
• look at getting a few new decorations
• wrap bought presents

Our tree won’t go up til 1st December but if I get it all out and organised it will make life easier.

For those interested in decorating on a budget check out this page.

And if you’re interested in Christmas related scrapping – pop on over to Roll 2 Create on 1st December… we’re running a Countdown to Christmas but more about that later ;)

Updating my Holiday’s In Hand progress – I’m gonna make a 8x8 Hybrid album and I think I’ll be hand making the cover for my album from chippie – it’s my project for the week :)

Holidays In Hand Days 2 - 4

I’m loving this class so far. The prompt pages are GORGEOUS (You’ll get to see them soon – printing them out & working on my presentation for them over the weekend)

The prompt pages have space for Things to Do & Things to Make

Here’s some of the things I’ll be adding to my Things to Do list

• Put up the Christmas tree.
• Go out somewhere special for dinner
• Celebrate the longest night of the year (December 21) by lighting extra candles or luminarias
• Make cards (ok I know I said I wasn’t going to make cards but I’m gonna make a couple for a few family members)
• Make homemade apple pie
• Decorate holiday cookies
• Address your holiday cards together
• Slip a little note of holiday love into a backpack, laptop case, lunchbox, or set it on a pillow
• Get in touch--call, write a letter, email, send a card--with a friend or relative whom you haven't heard from in a long time.

and some of the things I’ll be making

• some of these town house gift boxes
• an advent calendar
• this time capsule ornament
• chocolate truffles
• white christmas
• chocolate peppermint brownies (cause these look super yummy)

Will also be working on the Album framework over the weekend but more about that later ;)